Occasional Shippers

Handling two or three shipments a month sounds simple, but it can seem like every shipment needs a different form or must comply with a different regulation. Whether you are a big or small business, you experience these challenges.

Frequent Shippers

You have regular, consistent import and/or export shipments. You’ve engaged brokerage and freight providers to help, but managing multiple shipments and multiple partners can be a drain on your time and resources.

Enterprise Shippers

Your business has a global footprint, and managing your supply chain takes significant time and resources. You need help to maintain consistent, repeatable and compliant trade processes from end-to-end.

Carriers

As a carrier or driver, customer service is your top priority. We’ll help you navigate the border quickly and deliver on your commitments. We can even help you offer additional services to your clients.

submit harvest and landing information prior to entry into U.S. Commerce, and

maintain supply chain records from the point of harvest to the point of entry into U.S. Commerce, for a period of two years after entry.

For products harvested prior to the compliance date, U.S. importers should work with their foreign suppliers to ensure that the harvest event and supply chain records are available for any entries made on or after December 31, 2018.

This program was established to prevent illegally harvested and misrepresented seafood from being entered into U.S. Commerce.

Note that this is in addition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Prior Notice requirements; and the Office of Marine Conservation’s (OMC’s) requirement to file a Department of State form DS-2031 when importing shrimp or products containing shrimp.

If you have any questions regarding SIMP PGA reporting for shrimp and abalone, Livingston can help! Please contact either your Livingston account manager or our regulatory affairs department at usregaffairs@livingstonintl.com

We provide clarity in a world of trade complexity so that businesses can grow further, faster, smarter. Over 30,000 clients trust us with their customs brokerage, trade consulting, global trade management and freight needs.